NewsArt market
Artmonte-carlo takes advantage of an open fair calendar to entice blue-chip galleries to Monaco
In addition to the fledging fair, the tax haven on the Côte d'Azur is hosting a week of exhibitions and auction house offerings
NewsArt market
Legal battle over €15m Leonardo discovery: owner, Tajan auction house and French government fight it out
An export ban was placed on the drawing in 2017 but the French culture ministry has not purchased the drawing as planned
NewsArt fairs
Relaxed summer vibes at Arco Madrid despite opening with a third fewer exhibitors and no Latin American galleries
The Spanish art fair, which usually takes place in February, has braved the Madrid heat with this year’s postponed edition
PreviewExhibitions
Damien Hirst's Cherry Blossom paintings to be exhibited in artist's first major Paris show
Works from the series, painted by the artist rather than assistants, go on display at the Fondation Cartier this month
FeatureArles
Destination Arles: must-see art and culture spots while on pilgrimage to the new LUMA creative campus
From Roman architecture to medieval streets that inspired Van Gogh, the historic city in the south of France is becoming a go-to destination
NewsHeritage
Amazon's plans to build massive warehouse near Roman aqueduct in south of France cause concern
Locals say the construction will be a "wart" on the way to Pont du Gard, a Unesco world heritage site, and will harm the surrounding environment
NewsPolitics
Kirill Serebrennikov, film director and ousted arts complex chief, banned from leaving Russia for Cannes
His film Petrov’s Flu has been nominated for the prestigious Palme d’Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival
NewsAdrian Piper
Adrian Piper plans a protest in Berlin over school class sizes
The 15 May demonstration is part of her ongoing Wahlkampagne criticizing Germany’s education system
NewsMuseums
Pinault's Bourse de Commerce plans to finally launch on 22 May as Macron gives French museums the green light to reopen
Health passes to certify visitors are Covid-free will be mandatory at cultural venues
NewsVenice
After long complaints about pollution and blocked views, Italy bans cruise ships in Venice’s historic centre
Decision will affect partying art collectors and redirect the mass tourism routed through the Giudecca Canal
NewsMemorials
France's planned slavery memorial on hold over debate about naming 200,000 freed slaves
Shortlisted proposals by artists including Adrian Piper, Julien Creuzet and duo Sammy Baloji and Emeka Ogboh did not adequately adhere to the requirements, campaign group says
NewsCentre Pompidou
Centre Pompidou plans to show 120,000 works 'as much as possible' around France during three-year closure
While Paris museum undergoes renovations, Europe's biggest modern and contemporary art collection will go on tour—keeping curators employed
NewsAngkor Wat
After objections, Cambodian government rejects proposal for theme park on the outskirts of the Angkor Wat temple complex
Culture and Fine Arts Ministry signals a potential openness to a scaled-down proposal
Newscoronavirus
French culture minister hospitalised after contracting Covid-19
Roselyne Bachelot's condition is "stable and not worrying"
NewsRestitution
France to return Klimt painting, which hangs in the Musée d’Orsay, to heirs of Viennese Jewish owner
Rosiers sous les arbres will be restituted after a legal process releases it from the national collections
NewsStatues
'Proud to be colonised?': statue of French politician torn down in Martinique
Demands are growing on the Caribbean island to address the impact of its history of slavery
NewsCopyright
Musée Rodin could be forced to release 3D scans of bronze sculptures—including The Thinker—to the public
Cosmo Wenman made a freedom of information request for the files and is taking the museum to court because it turned him down
NewsAuctions
Unseen Van Gogh painting of Paris—owned by one French family for a century—could make $10m at Sotheby’s
The rare work shows a distinctive pastoral side to the city's Montmartre neighbourhood
NewsAuction houses
Christie’s to accept cryptocurrency for first time
The buyer of Beeple's NFT work will be able to pay with ETH later this month
NewsAngkor
Proposed resort and water park threaten ancient heritage of Angkor Wat in Cambodia
Unesco has expressed alarm that the development will encroach onto the protected zone of the World Heritage site
NewsArt market
First Paris sale of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s art collection brings in nearly $10m
Works by the artists, and their friends, largely exceeded estimates in the white glove auction. Part two will take place tomorrow
NewsArt market
Undeterred by claims of inauthenticity, Christie's Pre-Columbian sale will go ahead tomorrow
"Christie’s has not been provided with any evidence that would challenge the lawfulness of this sale," a representative says
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Centre Pompidou will close from the end of 2023 for three-year renovation
The plan is to finish essential maintenance on the building in time for its 50th anniversary in 2027
NewsCommercial galleries
Galleria Continua opens new Paris space with JR-curated show
Amid Covid-19 pandemic, Italian gallery hopes to "generate smiles" with second outpost in France
NewsPrizes
Lithium mining and a Donald Judd horror film: nominees for Prix Marcel Duchamp—France's most prestigious contemporary art award—announced
The four artists will have their work exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris for the prize, worth €35,000
NewsMuseums
Opening of Pinault's Bourse de Commerce postponed as French museums told to remain closed
Scheduled to reopen this week, cultural institutions must keep their doors shut after an increase in Covid-19 cases
NewsMuseums
French museums dismayed as reopening pushed to 7 January
Three-week delay caused by rising cases of coronavirus in the country
NewsCathedral of Notre Dame
Clearing the 'voice' of Notre Dame: Paris cathedral's great organ meticulously removed for refurbishment
Huge operation to hoist the instrument out of the fire-ravaged building has taken four months
NewsPublic art
Anselm Kiefer makes first new works for Paris's Pantheon in almost a century
President Emmanuel Macron chose the German artist for the commission that commemorates the French writer and First World War soldier Maurice Genevoix
NewsPolitics
Artist demands Baku art centre pulls his exhibition for using it as a 'propaganda tool' in Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict
Turkish-born Ahmet Ogut says the Yarat Contemporary Art Space refused to take down the exhibition banner with his name appearing next to the Azerbaijani flag
NewsArt market
Asia Now fair swoops up would-be Fiac exhibitors
Paris fair makes up for lack of Asia-based exhibitors with some blue chip galleries who were meant to be participating at the larger, cancelled fair
NewsContemporary African Art
Kapwani Kawanga wins Duchamp Prize with installation referencing African independence
Paris-based artist's work recreates flower arrangements that featured at diplomatic events connected to independence ceremonies in African countries
NewsFrance
Congolese activist fined €1,000 for trying to seize African funeral pole from Paris museum
Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza and the other activists who removed the object from display at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac say their actions are a protest against colonial looting
NewsRestitution
France’s National Assembly votes to return colonial-era artefacts to Benin and Senegal
Accelerated bill enabling restitution of 27 objects from French museums passes first vote in parliament
NewsFashion
How about an €8m Chanel makeover? Paris fashion museum reopens with help of luxury brand
Palais Galliera opens its doors during a hybrid physical and digital Paris fashion week with a major Chanel exhibition
NewsArt market
Controversy erupts over Fiac cancellation
Paris's major contemporary art fair has been scrapped due to Covid-19 fears, but galleries are divided over whether the decision was wise or "lacking courage"
NewsCathedral of Notre Dame
New VR experience recreates Notre Dame in its former glory—and after its devastating fire
The 360 degree film Rebuilding Notre-Dame—on show in Paris—allows visitors to once again "step inside" the cathedral
NewsCathedral of Notre Dame
Saving Notre Dame's 'voice': mammoth restoration begins on cathedral's fire-damaged organ
Beginning today, the piece by piece removal and cleaning of the instrument is the latest stage of the building's reconstruction
NewsMuseums
Musée Rodin in Paris casts new bronzes to offset losses from Covid-19 crisis
With an estimated shortfall of €4.4m in revenue, the museum is looking to "increase the offer and opportunities for sales to new markets"
NewsFrance
Roselyne Bachelot is France’s new culture minister
The former health and ecology minister shares a passion for opera with newly appointed Prime Minister Jean Castex
NewsArt market
Strong sales as France restarts live auctions
Artcurial, the first auction house to reopen, doubled its sale estimate as lockdown seems to have "sharpened" buyers' appetite
NewsAfrica
Artist Amadou Sanogo plans Bamako arts centre to mentor young talent
Expected to open in 2022, Makoro will house studios for Malian artists under 30, workshops for school children and exhibitions
NewsObituaries
Florian Schneider, co-founder of pioneering electronic band Kraftwerk, has died, aged 73
The experimental musician and his fellow “klangchemiker” Ralf Hütter were known for their highly visual, conceptual sensibility
NewsFrance
Amidst fierce criticism, Emmanuel Macron announces plans to help France's culture sector during the pandemic
French president says artists will be invited into schools and asked to create new commissions, but many art professionals say it is not enough
Newscoronavirus
French galleries and 'small museums' to reopen in stages from 11 May
Larger museums are unlikely to be accessible until June
NewsExhibitions
Museums wrangle to extend exhibition loans beyond lockdown
Delicate negotiations with lenders are under way to postpone major European shows of Raphael, Artemisia Gentileschi and Christo
NewsCathedral of Notre Dame
Notre Dame's construction site to reopen next week
A team will enter the Paris cathedral site on Monday to make arrangements for around 50 construction workers to return from early May
NewsOpenings
Opening of Pinault's grand new gallery in Paris delayed until 2021 as France extends lockdown
Originally scheduled to open in June this year and then postponed until September, new government measures to contain Covid-19 add further delays to the Bourse de Commerce space
NewsFrance
French organisations create artists' funds and support for summer festivals
The culture ministry and southwest region provides grants for projects, while Paris-based collector Antoine de Galbert appeals to private donors through his foundation
NewsCathedral of Notre Dame
Thieves arrested for stealing stones from Notre Dame in Paris
Drunk perpetrators may have wanted to sell the items on the black market
Newscoronavirus
Venice canals appear cleaner amid coronavirus lockdown
Images of clearer water and returning wildlife to the Italian city are being posted on social media
AnalysisArt market
Business as usual as Arco opens in Madrid against a backdrop of coronavirus anxiety
Spanish art fair celebrates the work of Cuban-American artist Felix González-Torres, who died of Aids in 1996
NewsMusée du Domaine Royal de Marly
Decadence of Sun King’s pleasure palace revealed at reopened museum near Versailles
Musée du Domaine Royal de Marly is dedicated to the château where Louis XIV partied with his favoured courtiers
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Five years after Charlie Hebdo attack, France plans centre dedicated to satirical cartoons
In honour of the victims and to promote the medium, the French culture ministry will create "a meeting, training and exhibition place"
NewsPhotography
Double exposure: new Paris venue to unveil two historic photography collections
Exhibition space will show and sell digital reproductions of images from the archives of the Roger-Viollet agency and France-Soir newspaper
NewsArtists
Yinka Shonibare plans ambitious artist residency programme in Nigeria
The artist's foundation will run spaces in Lagos and Ijebu coinciding with the 2021 Art X Lagos fair
NewsArt market
French government has 30 months to find funding for Cimabue kitchen painting
Culture ministry blocked export of medieval work but will the French state proceed with purchase?
NewsMusee du Quai Branly–Jacques Chirac
Quai Branly to send fragment of feather belt worn by first King of Tahiti back to Polynesia
Rediscovered maro 'ura will go on show at Museum of Tahiti and the Islands on long-term loan from 2021
NewsMuseums
Strikes hit France: here are the museums that are affected
Several institutions have closed, others have cut back their opening times as protests against Macron's retirement reforms sweep the country
NewsTariffs
'A giant wall': art world feels the pinch of Trump’s 25% import duty on printed works
Collectors and artists are scrambling to find solutions to the US government’s penalty tariffs
ReviewArt fairs
Still very much a local (af)fair: Art Düsseldorf's Asian promise is yet to come to fruition
Strong German collector base attracts European and US galleries but the the influx of international dealers and visitors is only a trickle
NewsArt fairs
Fine Arts Paris to expand with new investment, but will it rival the city's Biennale?
New partnership with Connaissance des Arts magazine announced as third edition of the fair opens
ReviewArt market
Also Known As Africa fair draws crowds but lacks big galleries—for now
Parisian fair dedicated to contemporary African art is gaining momentum in its fourth edition
NewsNigeria
Yoruba prince donates more than 1,000 works of art to establish university museum in Nigeria
Yemisi Shyllon hopes other Nigerian collectors will follow his example and help found teaching museums that promote art education
NewsArt market
Imane Farès drops out of new Paris gallery complex
Gallery was due to take a space in Komunuma, housed in a 1940s former manufacturing plant in Romainville, a north eastern suburb
NewsExhibitions
Urs Fischer makes wax portrait of Leonardo DiCaprio and his family for Gagosian show
One edition of the work has already been set alight and will gradually melt away over the course of the exhibition
NewsCrossrail
Latest Crossrail commission unveiled at Canary Wharf
Michal Rovner's video features some of London's best known landmarks
NewsPhotography
Test shot: Lille’s new photography institute prepares for 2021 launch
The new Institut pour la Photographie is backed by the annual photography festival Rencontres d’Arles
NewsObituaries
Jacques Chirac, former French president, dies, aged 86
The politician, who also served as prime minister and Paris mayor, championed the founding of the Musée du Quai Branly
NewsCathedral of Notre Dame
It's official: French tycoons finalise €300m donations for fire-ravaged Notre Dame
Foundation secures funds from Bernard Arnault and François Pinault towards the reconstruction of the cathedral
PreviewExhibitions
'It’s our intervention that causes the mayhem': Kiki Smith on work, wandering and the wonders of nature
Tapestries, photography and sculpture feature in the US artist’s first major UK show for 25 years at Modern Art Oxford
NewsJeff Koons
Installation of Jeff Koons's controversial Bouquet of Tulips begins in Paris
The sculpture will now go on show near the Champs-Elysées, after previous location near the Palais de Tokyo was strongly opposed
NewsCathedral of Notre Dame
Construction on Notre Dame pushed back to 19 August as steps taken to decontaminate site from lead
Construction had been expected to start a week earlier, but new safety measures for the protection of workers are still being tested
NewsObituaries
Greek sculptor Panayiotis Vassilakis, known as Takis, has died at 93
The self-taught artist explored magnetic field energy in his kinetic works, admired by Duchamp and the American Beat poets
NewsRachid Koraichi
Algerian artist Rachid Koraichi builds cemetery for drowned migrants
Though the site is due to open next spring, Koraichi has already had to bury 56 anonymous bodies to relieve overcrowding in existing local cemeteries
NewsOuter Space
Work by an African artist to be launched into space to highlight effects of global warming
Piece will be fixed onto nose of an Ariane 5 launcher that will be collecting data on climate change's impact on Africa
NewsCathedral of Notre Dame
'Robin Hood' environmental group files lawsuit over lead fumes near Notre Dame
Complaint accuses authorities of failing to protect locals from potential health risks after fire
NewsCommercial galleries
‘Grand Paris’: new art complex to open in Parisian suburb
Galleries such as Air de Paris and Fabienne Leclerc will relocate to a refurbished industrial space in Romainville
NewsExhibitions
Kazakhstan's first international exhibition reveals a craving for culture in Nur-Sultan
In the wake of the country's cancelled Venice Biennale pavilion, the show aims to build a more global "artists' community" in the newly renamed capital city
NewsOpenings
Bordeaux gets €60m Meca for creative industries
Bjarke Ingels-designed culture hub will be the new home of the Frac regional contemporary art centre
NewsCommissions
Olafur Eliasson commissioned to light up the Arc de Triomphe
Project is part of the City of Paris's programme of raising its image ahead of the 2024 Games
NewsPhotography
Hossein Farmani's homecoming sees two photography centres open in Iran
The Lucie Awards organiser plans to open a museum in the city of Kashan next April
NewsConservation & Preservation
Eileen Gray’s and Le Corbusier’s architectural gems reopen after extensive restoration
A Modernist villa and hut in the south of France feature wall paintings by Le Corbusier
NewsExhibitions
Crowd control: Louvre to enforce timed tickets in run-up to Leonardo da Vinci blockbuster
Reservations will mainly be online as French museum anticipates record visitor figures
ReviewArt market
Smaller Art Cologne caters to our short attention spans
Less is more in the internet age, says organiser of fair which has dropped from 210 exhibitors to 176
NewsProtest
Petition launched to remove 'racist' anti-slavery fresco in France's National Assembly
Artist Hervé Di Rosa describes the demand as "censorship"
NewsObituaries
French sculptor Claude Lalanne has died, aged 93
Her imaginative works inspired by flora and fauna sometimes carried a Surrealist touch
ReviewArt market
A 'feminist fair' but Art Paris still lacks a clear identity
Focus on female artists this year has given the fair a boost yet some exhibitors think more should be done to draw international collectors
NewsPablo Picasso
Picasso painting of Dora Maar recovered by ‘Indiana Jones of the art world’
The €25m work was stolen 20 years ago from a yacht on the French Riviera
NewsObituaries
Pioneering artist and film-maker Agnès Varda has died, aged 90
Varda was part of France's New Wave movement and her recent documentary with street artist JR was nominated for an Oscar
NewsVenice Biennale
Algeria cancels first-time participation in the Venice Biennale
The county’s culture ministry cites financial and preparatory issues but says it will take part in 2021
NewsFondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent
Jasper Conran buys Yves Saint Laurent's Villa Mabrouka in Tangier
The villa was the fashion designer's home in the last decades of his life
NewsTechnology
Paris digital art venue Atelier des Lumières is a hit, and expanding abroad
French museums operator Culturespaces has launched a space in South Korea and is planning another in Bordeaux in 2020
NewsLaw
French court fines Art Basel backer UBS €3.7bn for tax evasion and money laundering
The conviction follows a seven-year investigation into the Swiss banking giant by French authorities
PreviewExhibitions
Theaster Gates on how his new show was inspired by the eviction of 45 people from an island in Maine
The Chicago-based artist's exhibition in Paris examines the forced removal in 1911 of the inhabitants of Malaga Island
NewsArt market
Artgenève bridges Switzerland's language divide
Eighth edition of fair attracts more blue-chip and German-speaking Swiss galleries keen to meet Geneva's Francophone collectors
NewsDAU
DAU: giant art installation on Soviet era unveiled in Paris
Highly anticipated event blighted by snags with venues and security
NewsProtest
Hundreds of Christians protest against McJesus sculpture at Haifa Museum of Art in Israel
Finnish artist Jani Leinonen has asked museum to remove the work—with no response
NewsExhibitions
A pair of golden tyres at the Opéra Garnier in Paris provokes public ire
A new installation by artist Claude Lévêque is proving controversial since its unveiling on 30 December
NewsArt market
French antiquities dealers slam ‘shocking’ report on restituting African art
Dealers’ association seeks meeting with culture minister over fears report will open the door to numerous restitution claims for a range of artefacts